Published on: 2026-10-04
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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Non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the capital create and develop parent clubs and support groups for families facing difficult life circumstances. These are free communities where moms and dads raising children with health challenges, those who have adopted a child, experienced loss, or face other difficulties can turn to. In the clubs and groups, parents exchange experiences, receive expert consultations, and find like-minded people. This help is especially important in situations where adults require additional emotional resources to find new solutions or get out of a crisis.
You can support these and other organizations that provide support to families during difficult times through charitable service on the mos.ru portal.
Support families raising children with disabilities
Charitable foundation “Color of Life” provides comprehensive assistance to families raising children with disabilities (PWD). Free correctional classes are held at the family leisure and development center in Strogino classes — group and individual. Before starting work, each child undergoes a diagnosis by a neuropsychologist: based on its results, a personalized program is selected taking into account personal characteristics. It may include developmental and cooking classes, sand and music therapy, art therapy, sensory integration, or adaptive physical education.
While the children are busy, adults can come to parent club The foundation is a place where it is easier to talk about difficult things because there are people nearby who are going through a similar journey. Meetings are organized in various formats: they can be group or individual, in-person or online. They are led by the foundation’s psychologist, Natalia. Qualified trainers also participate in the work. In addition, participants organize their own workshops. For example, one mother held a session on making marshmallows. This helps parents feel needed and valued.
“At meetings, parents share experiences and concerns, discuss questions about child development and upbringing, and receive consultations from specialists. Here you can honestly talk about difficulties and be sure that you will be understood without unnecessary explanations,” say the ‘Color of Life’ foundation.
To help those who have faced loss
Charitable Foundation “Light in Hands” supports families experiencing the loss of a child, facing difficulties during pregnancy and problems with conception. Its specialists provide individual and family counseling, as well as organize support groups on various topics. One of the directions is helping people who are experiencing perinatal loss. The meetings take place in person or online under the supervision of a psychologist who helps facilitate dialogue.
“After a loss, a person often feels lonely. A group provides an opportunity to share your story with those who truly understand what you’re going through. Participants can openly speak about anger, guilt, and emptiness without fear of being misunderstood. In support groups, you can also discuss plans for the future — gently, without rush or pressure, to help sort out your own feelings and reduce anxiety,” explains Indira Daurova, a psychologist at the Light in Hands Foundation.
Specialists accompany the family at all stages — from living through the loss to being ready to move forward. One participant speaks about the foundation’s work this way: “Thank you to the foundation for creating a great and wonderful opportunity to share, to tell, to talk through your pain.”
Support for foster families
Charitable Children’s Foundation “Victoria” helps orphaned children, foster families, and prospective adoptive parents. Its main task is to support parents at all stages — from preparing to receive the child to overcoming crises. Support are carried out at two levels — basic and crisis.
The basic level is regular assistance: consultations with psychologists, educational webinars, parent-child training sessions, classes with a speech therapist-defectologist and a neuropsychologist. The crisis level is support for families facing major life changes: the child’s adaptation process is difficult, parents struggle with raising a teenager, there are significant problems at school. In such moments, the foundation establishes a unified support line so that the family is not left alone with new challenges.
An example of such assistance is the story of Anastasia’s family, who is raising six children. When the couple took in three foster children, they faced conflicts, declining academic performance, and theft among the kids. The mother began to experience emotional exhaustion. “I realized: I couldn’t manage without help,” she recalls. The foundation’s psychologists conducted a series of individual and family consultations: they taught the children to express emotions without aggression and helped the parents set boundaries and establish a daily routine. An important role was played by the support group for foster parents—there Anastasia found like-minded people. “When I look at other parents, I understand: difficulties can be overcome,” she shares. Gradually, the conflicts in the family disappeared, the children’s academic performance improved, and the parents managed to carve out time for rest and self-care. The foundation continues to support the family: “Parents are never left alone with their problems.”
Support the projects of the capital’s funds with the help of charity service mos.ru is very simple. On the service page, you need to select the aid program and specify the transfer amount. You can send a donation to the beneficiaries of one, several, or all programs in the category at once: in this case, the amount will be evenly distributed among all organizations.
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